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Culver City High School Cancels Honors Classes for 'Racial Equity'
"This one is in Culver City, California, parents there are pushing back because the school district has eliminated. They've gotten rid of the honors classes. Now, when you were back in school, and I suspect this is most of our audience, you aspired many of us aspired to be in the smart kid classes. Right? So you wanted to, you wanted to work hard, you wanted to get your homework, you were studying for your test, so you could get into an honors class, which would give you a leg up if you were going to college. And it was something you aspired you aspired to be better. Well, that's not going to happen anymore because the educators and Culver City California. They have eliminated all the honors classes and instead they've made all the classes all the coursework is now uniform. In other words, the smart kids are being punished in the name of diversity. Now the school district says that they decided to do away with do away with honors classes to make sure students of all races receive an equal education. Which inherently is racist on the part of the school board for them to think that some races will not do as well as others and these honors classes. But the stupid media, they didn't see that. Anyway, this is going on all over the country. Wisconsin, Rhode Island, other places in California, but here's what I find fascinating about this story. The teachers say there are far too many Asians students in the honors classes. So now they're coming after the Asian kids.
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"I'm a Martinez in Culver City, California. Mexico is trying to come to terms with a data leak of more than 4 million documents from inside the military that has exposed some of the country's closest kept secrets. And BR has obtained the documents, which includes everything from the health of the president to corruption among Mexico's military. NPR's Ada Peralta joins us now from Mexico City. Let's start with what was leaked. What did we learn about that so far? We've learned a ton about the military. I mean, one of the big ones is that president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador had to be airlifted to a hospital with a heart problem, another document alleges that a top law enforcement officer was taking $250,000 a month to protect the cartel. But above all, this has revealed a ton about Mexico's military. We've learned that despite being tasked with fighting the drug war, some of its soldiers sold weapons to the cartels. We've learned that they suggested that the military suggests legislation that the military keeps statistics on murders and that they run surveillance on airports. We found that they keep dossiers on politicians and environmental activists anarchists and feminists in one email, we found what a military officials call counterintelligence operation against the bricklayers at a government project. There are millions of documents, as you said. But I think what is clear and what we find is that Mexico's military is involved in every major aspect of this country. So what do we know about the group that leaked it? So they call themselves the waka Maya or the macaws. And they're anonymous, but they say that they're anti colonial anti capitalist environmentalists, and they've done a similar things in other countries. But this hack is huge. 6 terabytes of data taken from the email servers of the Mexican Ministry of Defense and it's one of the biggest leaks in history. What has the government said about this? Because I got to admit adair, I'm not too shocked. Well, what's been the reaction? President Lopez Obrador has admitted that the documents were real, but he shrugged it off. The defense minister actually refused an invitation by parliament to testify about this. But what's important to note is that this is coming at a time when this president has given the military a lot more power and it comes through other reports. We've learned that the military was also involved in the killing of 43 college students in 2014, yet the president continues to tell the Mexican people that the only institution that can be trusted is the military. I spoke to political analyst in east dresser and like you, she says that while none of this is a surprise to those who were paying attention, it's still about an institution that was supposed to fix things. And that's why these leaks are so hard to process. Let's listen. There's still an element I think of false hope that if we continue to rely on the Mexican military, eventually some semblance of peace will emerge. What the leaks reveal is that perhaps there's already a level of collusion that can't be dismantled. So the military, she says, that presidents and the Mexicans had put their faith in, has turned almost all powerful. And it may just be as corrupt as the Rex as the rest of the Mexican state. And that's really hard to come to terms with, she says. NPR's eighter Peralta in Mexico City ate her thanks. Thank you, eh? The electrical grid of the future, one that relies on the sun and the wind, will also need ways to store that electricity for when we need it. And it's reviving interest in an old approach to storing power, a kind of battery that uses gravity and water. From lakeside, California, Dan Charles reports. Northeast of San Diego up a steep winding road and on the other side of a locked gate. There's a place that could store a huge amount of
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"Live from NPR news and Culver City California, I'm Dwayne Brown. About two and a half million people along the Florida coastline are being told to leave ahead of a major hurricane expected to make landfall tomorrow, damage is expected across a wide area of Florida, including Fort Myers, Tampa and St. Petersburg, which hasn't seen a category four storm in more than a century. President Biden is urging folks to heed the orders of local officials in stay safe as the administration sends an emergency resources. Fema is already deployed 700 personnel to Florida and the governor is activated 5000 state National Guard with another 2000 guards coming from other states. Fema is also proposing and prepositioning 3.5 million liters of water, 3.7 million meals, and hundreds of generators. The hurricane warning covers roughly 180 miles of Florida's West Coast forecasters say the surge of ocean water could reach ten feet or more at high tide tomorrow. The prime minister of Denmark says sabotage could be behind two leaks detected in the Nord stream pipeline network as NPR's Jeff brumfield tells a seismic stations picked up two explosions shortly before the leaks were seen. Swedish and Danish seismic networks picked up the explosion several hours apart on Monday, Bjorn directs the Swedish national seismic network, he says that the events look a lot like previous signals the network is detected in other areas when the Swedish navy was testing depth charges and undersea mines. What we record are there are very similar to what we record from last. So we are pretty sure. He says there is no natural event that could have caused a similar seismic signal. The Nord stream one pipeline moves natural gas between Russia and Germany, Russia suspended gas shipments through the pipeline earlier this month. You are listening to NPR news. From WAB news in Atlanta, I'm Jim burris her time now 5 32. In Democrats and Republicans are focusing on women voters in Georgia's upcoming midterms. Politics reporter Raoul bally takes us to recent campaign events that highlight their differing approaches. Former Republican Georgia U.S. senator Kelly loeffler has focused on registering and turning out conservative voters since her defeat last year to now U.S. senator Raphael Warnock. On Saturday morning in Roswell she spoke to supporters at an event launching a women's outreach effort
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"Is four O 6. From NPR news, this is all things considered, I'm Elsa Chang and Culver City, California, and I'm on a summers in Washington. Hurricane Ian is getting bigger and stronger as it approaches Cuba. After it crosses over the island tomorrow, it will enter the Gulf of Mexico, where the warm waters are expected to further fuel the storms explosive growth. Its forecast to reach major category four status with winds above 140 mph. Ian may weaken slightly as it nears Tampa and St. Petersburg on Wednesday, but the storm surge could be as high as ten feet. We'll begin our coverage today with Stephanie colombini of member station Wu SF and Tampa. People were waiting for hours to fill sandbags at a city where sight in south Tampa. And this community streets can turn into rivers after just a few hours of rain, so if Ian pushes more water in from a coast, it could cause serious damage. The surge is definitely our biggest concern. Storm surge. Second grade teacher Lizzie Zimmerman stood in line holding a glass case, crawling inside was a yellow and brown critter. The class pet she took home when area screws closed for the next few days. This is princess Sophia, the leopard gecko. She is evacuating with us. Zimmerman is one of hundreds of thousands of residents who live in the coastal zones, county officials have ordered to evacuate. She's planning to stay with family in South Florida, where she thinks she'll be out of harm's way. 5 years ago, hurricane Irma threatened Tampa, but changed paths at the last minute. Zimmerman hopes Tampa healthy as fortunate this time too. For many new residents who flock to the area since, this is their first time dealing with a hurricane. Charles Michaels moved here from Los Angeles earlier this year and says he had to ask a young woman in line for help with prep. I said, well, what do you do for these sort of things? And she told me how to fill a sandbag, which I didn't know how to tie
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"It's morning edition from NPR news. I'm Stevens keep in Washington. And a mee Martinez in Culver City, California. Russian officials open polling places in parts of Ukraine at 8 o'clock local time, the Russian news agency task says they began their plan to formally annex parts of their neighbor. Three separate referendums cover three Russian occupied areas. Now this kind of voting shifting the allegiance of territory under military occupation violates international law and of course also Ukrainian law. Independent observers are not on hand for the voting Russia describes, but NPR's cat lonsdorf has been talking to people leaving the occupied areas cat where are you and what did you see? Hey, yeah. So yesterday I was in the city of Zappa region. I was in this giant parking lot that's been set up for months now as a staging area for people fleeing from other parts of Ukraine. And this long line of cars pulled in, it was a convoy full of people and officials started checking their documents. These people were mostly coming from cities like Mali topol and parts of the hair song region down south. Those are both been under Russian occupation for months. What are they telling you? Every person I talked to said that they finally made the decision to leave as soon as they heard about these referendums. I talked to one older couple named Anatolia and Victoria, you're Molyneux. So they told me that they had been waiting, hoping that Ukraine would be able to retake their city, but they said that this referendum was the last straw. They had to leave. They did say that their neighbors stayed behind, and their neighbors plan was to hide if Russian soldiers come to their home to try to get them to vote. Russian soldiers coming to their home. Is that something people are worried about there? Oh yeah, absolutely. That's what most people said they expected to happen. And Russian news outlets have reported that that's how they are in fact doing this voting paper ballots door to door. I talked to one woman 67 year old Manila sanko. She's from moto. And she told me that she's originally from Donetsk, and she was living there when the referendums happened before in 2014. She told me they were staged that Russia went to houses, essentially forcing people to vote. She asked me, how can you really vote when they have guns? So it's fair to say I think that the people you've talked to don't have any trust in this vote, which helps explain why they're leaving, but is there any support at all for the referendum? For actually becoming a part of Russia. Yeah, it did ask people if they knew of support in the areas they were coming from and many told me, yeah, of course, there are people who support this. But they said it's mainly older people, you know, people who have maybe fond memories of the Soviet Union or have been bribed with humanitarian aid or extra pension money. And the people are talking to were quick to point out that that kind of support has dropped dramatically, especially after people have been bombed and occupied for the last few months. And it's all part of a larger move by Russia. They've passed new laws and are now mobilizing hundreds of thousands of men. How do these referenda fit in with all that? Yeah, it's still a little unclear, but this could give Russia an argument that these areas are Russian soil, meaning that they would say that any attempt from Ukraine to take these areas back is an attack on Russia itself. Now, to be clear, almost every nation has said they don't recognize these referendums and neither does Ukraine obviously, but that won't stop Russia from claiming it. And one more worrying thing, people yesterday told me that all men ages 18 to 35 in their convoy were stopped by Russian soldiers sent back to the occupied territory. One father I talked to said that this happened to his 34 year old son that morning. I asked him if he was worried that his son would be mobilized to fight for Russia and he just sighed and said he hadn't even let himself think about that yet. NPR's cat lawns door reporting from neat pro Ukraine kept thanks. Thank you. The flu mostly disappeared for two years as the pandemic overtook it. Yeah, people do isolated themselves or worked from home, didn't get the flu, hardly any illness in my family, and to put it brutally vulnerable people who might have had the flu, died instead, from COVID. This year influenza appears poised to come back, raising the possibility of what's called a twin demic. NPR health correspondent rob Stein is here rob we haven't had to deal with the flu for years now. I haven't even had a sniffle. So what makes it look like the flu is going to be a problem this year? Yeah, you know, a, the first thing I should say is that the flu is notoriously unpredictable, so it's impossible to say precisely what's going to happen. That said, there are signs that the flu's hiatus is ending. And not only does it look like the fluke could be back for the first time in three years, there are indications that it could be a bad flu season. What are those clues? You know, it's what happened in the southern hemisphere. A big one is that after disappearing in the southern hemisphere for the last two years, the flu came roaring back in some countries south of the equator. In Australia, during the winter there, the flu also hit unusually early and what happens in the southern hemisphere's winter often foreshadows what's going to happen here. Doctor William schaffner is a flu specialist at Vanderbilt university. Clearly
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"And I'm a Martinez in Culver City, California. The European Union has agreed to a plan that aims to cut gas consumption across Europe by 15%. This move comes the same week that Russian energy company Gazprom abruptly cut gas deliveries to Europe through one of its most important pipelines. NPR's rob schmitz joins us now from Berlin to talk about all this rob, the EU came to this agreement to quickly, but it did so after many of its members were able to get exemptions from having to make these cuts. So what did EU members agree to exactly? Yeah, you members agreed to cut their gas consumption by 15% in spirit, but it's important to note here that these cuts are voluntary. They stop being voluntary, though, should Russia create an energy emergency by making sudden cuts in gas supplies to Europe. And Russia did that, right? Yeah, that's right. Not only did they do it this week, but this goes back several weeks when Russian energy company Gazprom abruptly cut the flow of gas on its Nord stream one pipeline by half. And then earlier this month, the company simply cut off all the gas in the pipeline for a ten day period, and it resumed last week, but then it cut gas again this week. So as it stands, the pipeline which connects Germany to Russian gas is now flowing at 20% capacity. So given this as a backdrop, member states will now need to start looking for energy savings so that they can meet this 15% gas savings benchmark because many see future cuts from Moscow as likely. And if the Kremlin should do that in the winter when Europe needs more of its gas for heating, then we're looking at a more dire situation. Now we mentioned on the cuts that not all EU member states will need to make them. Tell us about the exemptions. Right. Yeah, there are several EU countries that are not burning Russian gas for electricity or heat, so they've been granted exemptions as have other countries that have already launched ambitious energy savings plans. I spoke to the German Marshall funds at Jacob Kierkegaard about this and here's what he said. So, you know, once you factor in all these exemption, it's pretty clear that the number of countries that have huge reliant on gas and none of these exemptions, what they're going to be bearing most of the pain or most of the burden here, and that is Germany, Austria, and others, precisely, frankly, the way it should be. In a Kierkegaard is not alone in this opinion, many in Europe believe Germany, which up to the war in Ukraine, relied on Russia for half its natural gas, should shoulder most of the burden here due to its risky decision to rely so heavily on Moscow for its energy in the first place. In fact, the original proposal was for all EU states to cut 15% of their gas consumption, but the southern European states that long ago decided not to rely on Russia for energy were angry saying they shouldn't have to pay for what they saw as Germany's energy mistakes. So then what is Germany doing to reduce that Russian gas reliance? Quite a bit. Germany's parliament has passed a law that will fast track construction of liquefied natural gas terminals with the first one scheduled to be completed by the end of the year. That gas will be imported from the Middle East and the United States. The government is also conducting an energy survey right now to explore whether it should extend the life of three nuclear power plants that are scheduled to close by the end of the year, and we will know more on that option in a few weeks. NPR's rob schmitz is in Berlin, rob, thanks. Thank you. American
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"And I'm a Martinez in Culver City, California. The European Union has agreed to a plan that aims to cut gas consumption across Europe by 15%. This move comes the same week that Russian energy company Gazprom abruptly cut gas deliveries to Europe through one of its most important pipelines. NPR's rob schmitz joins us now from Berlin to talk about all this rob, the EU came to this agreement to quickly, but it did so after many of its members were able to get exemptions from having to make these cuts. So what did EU members agree to exactly? Yeah, you members agreed to cut their gas consumption by 15% in spirit, but it's important to note here that these cuts are voluntary. They stop being voluntary, though, should Russia create an energy emergency by making sudden cuts in gas supplies to Europe. And Russia did that, right? Yeah, that's right. Not only did they do it this week, but this goes back several weeks when Russian energy company Gazprom abruptly cut the flow of gas on its Nord stream one pipeline by half. And then earlier this month, the company simply cut off all the gas in the pipeline for a ten day period, and it resumed last week, but then it cut gas again this week. So as it stands, the pipeline which connects Germany to Russian gas is now flowing at 20% capacity. So given this as a backdrop, member states will now need to start looking for energy savings so that they can meet this 15% gas savings benchmark because many see future cuts from Moscow as likely. And if the Kremlin should do that in the winter when Europe needs more of its gas for heating, then we're looking at a more dire situation. Now we mentioned on the cuts that not all EU member states will need to make them. Tell us about the exemption. Right. Yeah, there are several EU countries that are not burning Russian gas for electricity or heat, so they've been granted exemptions as have other countries that have already launched ambitious energy savings plans. I spoke to the German Marshall funds Jacob Kierkegaard about this and here's what he said. So, you know, once you factor in all these exemption, it's pretty clear that the number of countries that have huge reliance on gas and none of these exemptions, what they're going to be bearing most of the pain or most of the burden here, and that is Germany, Austria, and others, precisely, frankly, the way it should be. In a Kierkegaard is not alone in this opinion, many in Europe believe Germany, which up to the war in Ukraine, relied on Russia for half its natural gas. Should shoulder most of the burden here due to its risky decision to rely so heavily on Moscow for its energy in the first place. In fact, the original proposal was for all EU states to cut 15% of their gas consumption, but the southern European states that long ago decided not to rely on Russia for energy were angry saying they shouldn't have to pay for what they saw as Germany's energy mistakes. So then what is Germany doing to reduce that Russian gas reliance? Quite a bit. Germany's parliament has passed a law that will fast track construction of liquefied natural gas terminals with the first one scheduled to be completed by the end of the year. That gas will be imported from the Middle East and the United States. The government is also conducting an energy survey right now to explore whether it should extend the life of three nuclear power plants that are scheduled to close by the end of the year, and we will know more on that option in a few weeks. NPR's rob schmitz is in Berlin, rob, thanks. Thank you. American
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"The globe, zoom how the world connects. This is morning edition from NPR news. I'm a Martinez in Culver City, California. And I'm Rachel Martin in Washington, D.C.. Okay, the House committee investigating the January 6th attack on the U.S. capitol is holding a surprise hearing today. At the end of last Thursday's hearing, the chairman said that the panel would postpone future hearings until mid July, but something changed. And while the rest of Congress has taken a break for its 4th of July recess, the committee is back to work in Washington today. And peer congressional correspondent dear to Walsh joins us now. Hey deirdre. Good morning, Rachel. What's going on? Well, the notice from the committee released yesterday suggests they have new information. It says the committee is going to convene to quote present recently obtained evidence and receive witness testimony. After last Thursday's hearing, the chairman Benny Thompson said the hearings next month are going to focus on efforts by extremist groups to organize the attack and on what president Trump was doing at The White House while the capital is under siege, but we don't know what the topic of today's hearing will be, committee has declined to disclose any details or even say if there's going to be more than one witness. Huh. So we've already seen testimony from some senior cabinet and White House officials, any chance we could hear from someone today who already spoke to the committee behind closed doors? Yes, right. So far the witnesses who have appeared in previous public hearings have already sat for closed door interviews under oath by the committee, punchbowl news and some other outlets are reporting that Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, is expected to testify today. NPR has not confirmed those reports. But you know, we've seen clips of Hutchinson's testimony in previous hearings. For example, she named which GOP lawmakers sought presidential pardons after January 6th. That was in last Thursday's hearing. The committee continues to reach out to potential witnesses, and some members of stress that is new information comes in, they may want to re interview some people. Vice chair Liz Cheney made a public appeal and one of last week's hearings to pat cipollone, who was White House counsel for president Trump. Other White House lawyers have appeared in tape clips, but cipollone only had informal discussions about appearing under oath. Okay, I guess we'll see what happens today. We've also got news dirty about John eastman, right? Someone very central to an earlier hearing, what do we know? Eastman is the conservative lawyer who was pushing this theory to Trump and others in his inner circle that vice president Pence could unilaterally overturn the election on January 6th. We learned through a court filing that federal agents seized eastman's cell phone last week. This happened on the same day that federal agents raided the home of Jeffrey Clark. He's the former Justice Department lawyer who also backed this eastman scheme to block the election certification. But we don't know if those developments were related. In that court filing eastman says the FBI took his phone on behalf of the DoJ inspector general, that's the internal watchdog at the Justice Department. Like that Clark raid, subpoenas have gone out to people in several states allegedly involved in this fake elector scheme. This is just another sign that as investigations as these hearings are happening, there are other investigations happening behind the scenes. And Paris is dear to Walsh, dear Joe, thanks for this. We appreciate it. Thanks, Rachel. The Food and Drug Administration meets today to plan the nation's next round of vaccines to battle COVID-19. And PR's rob Stein reports. The most powerful weapons the country has to coexist with the virus are the vaccines. There were turns a potentially deadly disease into something more like a cold or the flu for many people, and the new technology of the Moderna and Pfizer BioNTech vaccines use gives scientists the power to update the shots quickly by simply reprogramming the genetic code in the vaccines to match whatever strain poses the biggest threat, and many independent experts think that's exactly what the FDA should do. Here's deep debate. He's an immuno biologist at the university of Arizona. Very clearly I think what they should be doing is recommending that probably all vaccines include a component of omicron in there. To update the vaccines for another round of boosters in the fall to protect against what could be yet another dangerous surge in the coming winter. But big questions remain. Would it make sense to go with the vaccine that only targets overcrowd or with a so called bivalent vaccine that targets both the original strain of the virus and omicron. Moderna and Pfizer and BioNTech say they've developed new vaccines targeting over cron that should provide powerful potentially longer lasting protection, but others aren't so sure about switching up the vaccines. John Moore is an immunologist at wild Cornell medicine. Superficially, it sounds good that this is what should be done because omicron variants are what is now dominating the U.S. and global pandemic. But the details cast significant doubt on whether switching to an omicron based vaccine is justified. For starters, the new omicron vaccines appear to only stimulate the immune system to generate slightly higher levels of antibodies that can neutralize omicron. So it may make more sense to stick with the original vaccines, since they still seem to be protecting most people from getting really sick or dying. Another big concern is the updated vaccines target the original strain of omicron, but new omicron sub variants that are even better at dodging the immune system have already replaced it. Doctor Peter hotez is a vaccine expert at the Baylor college of medicine. Omicron is already in the rearview mirror and it's not clear that that's going to be useful anymore. So the FDA has raised a possibility of going even further, updating the COVID-19 vaccines more like the flu vaccines to anticipate where the virus may be heading. The country could, for example, go with new vaccines that target two new even more contagious omicron sub variants that have just now started taking over in the U.S., known as BA four and 5. But that raises even more questions are we there yet with vaccines that use technology that's still so new to target a virus that's still so unpredictable, who knows whether an entirely different strain could have taken over by next winter, rendering even that kind of vaccine less effective. Doctor ofer levy at Harvard is a member of an FDA advisory committee that will grapple with all of this today. It's a delicate time it's going to be a complicated deliberation. We don't have all the information we'd like, but we don't get to just sit around and speculate forever and wait for more and more information because the fall winter are arriving. We have new variants that are spreading rapidly. And while the vaccine can be updated faster than older vaccine technology, it's still can't happen overnight. The companies need time
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"I'm Elsa Chang and Culver City California And I married Louise Kelly in Washington In Thompson Illinois There's a federal prison set aside for gang leaders and other men who are considered the most dangerous because they have caused violence at other prisons But sometimes men get sent who may be shouldn't be there Maybe because when they got attacked at another prison they fought back or because they have a mental illness and acted out Now imagine trying to survive at that prison where you were surrounded by men who want to attack you and guards who use harsh methods to control you And pure investigative correspondent Joseph Shapiro and Christy Thompson of the Marshall project investigated that prison and found frequent violence prisoners killing other prisoners A warning this story contains graphic descriptions of violence and abuse Here's Ampere's Joseph Shapiro Last summer Bobby Everson got transferred to the federal prison in Thompson Illinois In his letters home like this one read by his sister he started sounding more scared This facility is for disciplinary inmates I'm doing my best to stay out there way I'm just a couple of years to the door And then those letters started sounding more desperate I got into it with a few officers in a few guys in here Just keep checking up with me At this prison Just days before Bobby Everson died he wrote that corrections officers had it out for him They had given him a new cellmate It was someone he told his cousin he was afraid of And I got in a little scuffle with another dude They put me in the cell with I feel the staff here is purposefully trying to put me in situations of conflict I'm doing all I can to stay out the way Pray for your little cousin that I get through unscathed An investigation by NPR and the Marshall project finds that the U.S. prison at Thompson Illinois is one of the deadliest and most dangerous in the country Prison records say 7 prisoners have died violently since March of 2020 In 2016 we investigated violence at an earlier version of that disciplinary unit That one was at lewisburg Pennsylvania Then the federal government shut it down and moved it to Thompson Now at the new prison we found more violence and more killings caused by the same problems of two men locked down for 23 hours a day or more in one small cell about the size of a parking space Of men placed in restraints often painful four point restraints for hours or days Of corrections officers putting two men together who they had reason to believe would fight The chaplain had called me On December 16th Sabrina Everson got a phone call from the prison chaplain at Thompson About her son Bobby who the family called AJ He said he was sorry to inform me that they had found AJ on They found him unresponsive in his cell at 9 a.m. in the morning That's ebony ever since sister Yeah Yeah When the body was returned to them in Syracuse New York they saw the many cuts and bruises to his face and body At one point a federal agent told them that Everson had died as a result of blunt force trauma But that's it They can't get any other details not even the death certificate More than 5 months after ever since death Not even after calling and calling The funeral home director back near the prison he's trying to help Yes yes I just checked this past week They're not available to us yet But I would expect them to not be too long So within a couple of weeks NPR knows more of the details than ever since family because the day after he was attacked in his cell another prisoner wrote a letter The hill says he was a witness to the death of Bobby AJ Everson A young prisoner was killed and sailed F three 13 Amen himself 15 That someone reading the letter from hill we knew hill and he knew us because we interviewed him for our stories about abuse of the prison at lewisburg His description of how Everson died is disturbing For one thing Everson was small and slight about 5 foot 6 inches tall Hill says the summit is a large man heavy and tall The bureau of prison says it can't talk to us about a pending investigation Hill says corrections officers should have known ever since was in danger because the cellmate was telling them He was going to get violent He had been telling the COs for two weeks Get the dew out of his sail or he'd kill him He told us the numeracy oaths even on the night it happened at 10 o'clock he told the seal during his rounds to get him out the sail or he would kill him Hill says corrections officers ignored the threat and even worse on the night of the killing one corrections officer even encouraged the cellmate the CO totem Just do it Do it The CO then slammed the metal flap close over the window the cell door window We're not naming the man who hill says killed Everson because he hasn't been charged with a crime But hill says other prisoners fear that man He had at least at a minimum at least ten different fights with ten different inmates He had numerous assaults on the staff That's Demetrius hill Recently he was transferred from Thompson I spoke to him on the phone about the death of Bobby H J Everson To force this kid in the cell with this madman they knew the results He had just beaten another prisoner who had been in the cell with him I'm talking about maybe two weeks maybe two weeks prior another prisoner I don't know his name and he was beating that inmate for days on end Days on it he was beating that prison Finally they took him out and stuffed loopy in it Loopy That's the nickname Bobby Everson used in prison On this and some of the details we've been able to confirm hill's story is accurate We found federal bureau of prisons documents that list ever since death as a homicide Even though the BOP had not said that publicly NPR was not able to independently verify other details of hill's account He will also wrote letters to a federal judge in Illinois with some of these same details We asked for more confirmation from BOP and the FBI which is responsible for investigating ever since death did the cellmate kill Everson was the cellmate known to be violent Both the BOP and the FBI said they can't discuss a matter under investigation I was scared for him 'cause we don't know what's happening in them prisons you know That's ever since father Also named Bobby Everson The family wanted to know more I read part of the hills letters to them About how he says their son died and about how he was terrorized in those last weeks by his cellmate and Whoopi stayed in his bed pressed to the top monk Clearly spooked.
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"This is all things considered from NPR news I'm also Chang and Culver City California and I'm Sasha Pfeiffer in Washington It was not the right decision Those are the words of the director of the Texas Department of Public Safety today They came after he revealed that law enforcement waited more than an hour to enter a classroom in uvalde Texas and kill a gunman who was shooting children inside It was not the right decision because they were still children alive inside some of them calling 9-1-1 over and over again asking for help For more on this we are joined by NPR's Adrian Florida who is in uvalde hydrin Hi Sasha I don't know how to describe these new details except horrifying Tell us what the police are saying about how this unfolded inside rob elementary school Well officials are saying that just before 1130 on Tuesday morning this gunman crashed his truck outside the school started shooting at the school and then got into the school through a side door that a teacher had left propped open just moments before he encountered no resistance on his way into the school He made his way into one of two classrooms that were connected by a shared bathroom between the two and he started shooting the kids inside Two Yuval the police officers arrived minutes later the gunman shot at them and because of that they held back and then border patrol agents started to arrive 19 officers were in the hallway outside this classroom for about an hour and all the while they did not try to go in and take this gun and out And how do they explain that decision to hold back for so long Well at a press conference today the director of the Texas Department of Public Safety Stephen McCrory said that it was because they didn't know that there were children in danger Here's some of what he said The answer in commander considered a barricaded subject and that there was time and there were no more children at risk Obviously you know based upon the information we have the work children in that classroom that we're.
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"And I'm a Martinez and Culver City California If the Supreme Court overturns roe versus wade many states can end or curtail access to abortion almost immediately because of what are known as trigger bans 18 states have trigger laws to ban abortion if roe is overturned or have pre row abortion ban still in the books The gut mocker institute is an abortion rights advocacy group that tracks legislative efforts nationwide Its principal policy associate for state issues Elizabeth Nash joins now Elizabeth Is it fair to define trigger laws as the name of a law that's unenforceable but might become enforceable if things change If key circumstance change Exactly What we're talking about are abortion bans that were signed into law and only go into effect if roe V wade is overturned So they don't have a normal effective date like say July 1st Okay so based on that then explain how states are already set to restrict access to abortions if rho is reversed So what we have are 13 states that have these so called trigger bans right They go into effect if rho is overturned And then you have sort of some nuance in when they go into effect because there are three of them they go into effect immediately another 7 that go into effect upon the attorney general's certification and then another three that go into effect 30 days after the Supreme Court issues its decision But in all told all 13 of these would be an effect within the month So now that we've all seen this draft do you think more states will urgently enact some sort of trigger law now that we've seen it Well we have to take into account that some states already have adjourned their legislative sessions and may not be coming back in for special session But we might be seeing at least a couple There's one moving in Ohio Right now it's already had a hearing so we're waiting to see what might happen there in particular What about states Elizabeth where abortion is not addressed at all in the state constitution What might they do Well it depends really on the political tenor of the state You know right now we have these great already a quarter of the state's 13 of them have these trigger bans And then you have another set of states that have pre ro bands or bands that were in effect before Rowan never repealed Those states could move to enforce those and then you have some states like Georgia where they passed a 6 week abortion ban that ban is not in effect because of the courts to the attorney general in that state once we hear from the Supreme Court may ask the judges to dismiss that case to allow that 6 week ban to go into effect So there's a series of things that can happen but I want to stress that this would happen fairly quickly We're not talking months and years We're really talking around days and weeks And there are some states that say their constitution doesn't protect abortion rights So they're going to go with maybe liberty clauses privacy clauses equal protection clauses Well yeah so in states that are where the constitution hasn't been interpreted to protect abortion rights and they do not and they don't have a constitutional amendment that says there are no protections for abortion rights Yes there are places that where we could be looking at liberty protections or equal protections or privacy protections to fight back against abortion bans Louisiana Tennessee are two of those states like that Elizabeth is if roe is overturned what kind of court challenges can we anticipate Well we are going to be our litigators in the movement are looking at what kinds of constitutional protections there could be based on those various types of clauses because as you know abortion is necessary and it's part of healthcare and we need to defend it to the fullest extent What opportunities do abortion rights advocates have for seeking constitutional protections on a state by state basis I know California mentioned Gavin Newsom governor of California mentioned maybe putting it in the state constitution a couple of days ago Right So right now from Vermont we have the very first ballot measure That if approved by the voters will put into the constitution an amendment that says this constitution protects abortion rights And we have an effort in Michigan where they are in the signature collection phase So it's a citizen's petition And they are looking to protect abortion rights in the you know at the November ballot as well And now we've got California And one more thing really quick What about states that have abortion ban still on the books from before roe V wade What happens with those zombie laws Those potentially could be enforced but some of them in places like Wisconsin and Michigan have attorneys general and governors who support abortion rights So they are not interested in enforcing them But places like Arizona and West Virginia we may see those attorneys general and governor trying to enforce them Okay Elizabeth Nash with the gut mocker institute titles with thanks Thank you.
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"And a Martinez in Culver City California Numbers from the CDC show nearly 67% of fully vaccinated people over the age of 65 have gotten a booster shot Pfizer and BioNTech want the FDA to authorize yet another one for that age group NPR health correspondent rob Stein says the idea is to bolster waning immunity It's become clear that the protection people get from three shots fades over time especially against catching the virus And that's especially true with omicron which is better at evading the immune system than earlier versions of the virus Now you know three shots still do a very good job of keeping most people from getting so sick they end up in a hospital or die but there has been rising concern about those who are the most vulnerable like the elderly They can have weaker immune systems to start with so some other countries have started giving older people yet another booster So what do you think I mean is the FDA likely to authorize another booster You know it really depends on how strong a case the agency thinks the companies are making It's based on two studies from Israel that are produced some evidence that a fourth shot could help pump the immune system back up and restore some protection against getting seriously ill I talked about this with doctor Eric Coppola Scripps research he's convinced there's enough evidence to warrant another round of boosters We need to move on this because there are a large number of people who have lost their protection against severe illness from omicron and future variants So topol thinks it's urgent to start making another booster available to the elderly especially in case omicron starts to surge again or another of dangerous variant emerges But not everyone is as convinced as doctor topol Yeah that's right That's right Many experts have been talking with basically say it may still be just too premature to start another round of boosters They say the Israeli data is far from a slam dunk that another shot is necessarily needed and would necessarily help Here's doctor Jesse Goodman He's a former FDA chief scientist who's now at Georgetown university I think you'd want to have really convincing evidence that a second booster was needed and beneficial and we just don't have that yet I don't think we know that a booster will not ultimately be required generally but I think we're just not there yet And some experts I talked to say the country should focus instead on getting the millions of people who are still not vaccinated at all to get their shots and get boosters into the arms of the millions of vaccinated people who still haven't gotten their third shots Only about two thirds of those aged 65 and older have gotten their third Chancellor boosters All right rob so what happens now The FDA will consider the request and make a decision the agency could ask a committee of outside advisers to give advice but it doesn't necessarily have to And one possibility is that the FDA authorizes the fourth shot and then leaves it up to the CDC about whether to recommend it or just have it ready for whatever the evidence becomes clear It's really needed The FDA is however planning to convene outside advisers next month to consider where we go from here with the vaccines more generally including whether we need a broader booster campaign perhaps in the fall that would include younger people too They may also discuss whether those shots should be annual or the same vaccine or something else like a vaccine targeted specifically at variants or maybe at protecting people against all coronaviruses As NPR health correspondent rob Stein rob thanks a lot You bet Oil prices are dropping they're now below a $100 a barrel so gas prices may soon drop too But as of the moment they're still near record highs So politicians are proposing gas tax holidays to give consumers a little relief at the pump This idea may seem good on paper but there are concerns that gas tax cuts could reduce the funding that's available to fix and replace crumbling roads and bridges Here's impairs David shaffer from Chicago The pain at the pump these days is palpable Gas prices are way too much you know people can afford this is ridiculous you know Harris Gonzalez is among those wince it as he pumps ten and a half gallons of gas on Chicago's northwest side There.
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"This is morning edition from NPR news I'm a Martinez in Culver City California And I'm Steve inskeep in Washington D.C. What is it like to live in Ukraine's capital while it's under attack Ukrainian forces remain in control of Kyiv though Russian forces seem to be building up their strength outside The reporters covering the city include asami terajima of the new site the Kyiv independent welcome to the program Thanks for having me I'm just going to call attention to your publication here I've been reading the key of independent kind of obsessively and I appreciate it very much so thanks for what you do Now what is the new routine of daily life So our daily life is basically we are watching the news 24/7 because we need to be aware of what's happening and we need to take all measures to ensure that we are safe and that in the safety of our families and friends as well right But at the same time Ukraine has been under Russia has already created 2014 So people have been stressed for all these years more than 13,000 Koreans have died in the bus vision So it's difficult time for everyone but people are doing their best to stay calm and doing their best to for example like they are packed They're ready to go If something does happen but for those who are staying in apartments especially people are just trying to encourage each other and to try to stay united with one another I'm glad you mentioned people who are packed or ready to go if something happened I mean something is happening We've heard of thousands of people who fled who chooses to stay and why So there are people who I mean not everyone can afford to leave right Because going to another city or even a foreign country that's not affordable for all decrease The average Ukraine is approximately $600 a month So that's difficult like living abroad or living under the city They have their own homes and many who are staying here would rather stay here in their own home and many would also like to protect their homeland to protect their city that they love and they live for many years Is their food and supplies So I went to a nearby supermarket yesterday and grocery store as well so the supermarket there's a long line so I didn't get the chance to go in but this smaller glossary store so there were no bread No grains but there were also no vegetables or fruits So I think the fresh products did the stock fresh products and grains are the food that lasts long It's limited but there's other plenty of other food available So you may not get the meal you want or you may not be able to stock up the pantry but you're able to get something Is that what you're telling me Yes and no one is panic buying everyone is only buying or whatever they need for the next couple of days When if at all do you go to a shelter we've certainly talked with and seen images of many people spending the nights in the subway stations So there are people who would rather stay in service station because it's deeper than you create historically has very deep retro stations Ukraine also has the world's deepest maturation in the center in Kyiv So yeah there are people who feel safer in legislation but it's also not it's not comfortable to stay there for a long time I spent it two hours myself and I had to sleep on the floor for a couple of a little bit And work on the floor So it's not comfortable so many people did go back after spending several nights there But we're already if something that if there is for example a setting nearby then we should all head to a nearby or somewhere that's very safety insured I want to note people have followed the past several days now as Kyiv has fended off Russian attackers but the Russian military seems to be bringing in more force How do you see the next few days or weeks and what is your long-term plan if you have one So I think it would be a very difficult job coming days or even weeks could be very difficult for the Ukraine military and for Ukrainian people The Ukraine made you however has been so heroical for the past few over the past few days you're fighting against a much stronger enemy But we need more manpower we need more arms So we will see what happens and we're doing our best to stay calm and just analyze the situation rationally And yeah I practice stay here for a foreseeable future in Kyiv But that is not 100% but most likely I will be staying here What would you most want in terms of help from the world I would welcome cross so the rest has been really supportive of and they've been post They've been imposing more and more sanctions against Russia which have been good because now we're making Russian economies software even more But we need to make sure that they suffer even more They suffer we need to make sure that the work costs Russia so much that they want they would record a force that they would pull their troops back and we need to make sure that Russia gets isolated from the world as much as possible And that includes taking away Russia's membership in the Security Council of the U.S. Asami terajima is a reporter for the Kyiv independent Thanks so much Thank you very much.
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"It's morning edition from NPR news I mean Martinez and Culver City California And I'm Stevens keep in Washington D.C. Good morning The rabbi who led his congregants out of a hostage situation last weekend says training made the difference Charlie citron walker spoke with CBS He really teach you in those moments that when your life is threatened you need to do whatever you can To get to safety you need to do whatever you can to get out Many synagogues have to give serious thought to security in this country and that includes temple shalom in nearby Dallas rabbi Andrew Mark Paley is the leader there and he's on the line Rabbi welcome to the program Thank you Good morning Strange to say but when news spread of this hostage taking last weekend were you surprised There's a moment when you're surprised and then you're not surprised It's a scene we've seen time and time again It just terrifying And is this something that your synagogues had to prepare for over the years We tried to keep our community as safe as possible and we prepare for the eventualities as the best we can Is this something that gets openly discussed among congregants that isn't an occasional subject of discussion Is it a constant subject of discussion that you feel that you're part of a community that may be under threat Well for the past number of years with the rise of anti semitism the incidents that have increased over the over the course of the country is on people's minds And it's an awareness that we keep as we go about doing the business of our community What kind of security do you have at your synagogue Well we have multiple layers of security we have a lay group a task force if you will we have coordination and collaboration with the local authorities We have regular security on the premises So it's a multi faceted approach I was thinking about this because of an article in the Atlantic this week by a security expert who sometimes on this program who talks of giving advice to a synagogue and the experts advice was harden your perimeter you've got to be tougher You've got to be harder to crack And the synagogue thought about this and they said no thanks We are a synagogue We need to be welcoming We need to let in lots of people Do you face a dilemma like that Absolutely It's a very delicate balancing act We want to be welcoming We want to encourage people to come in We want to be sanctuary And at the same time cognizant of the fact that there are real threats to real communities And so balancing how that's done under what circumstances is tricky And it's not always successful sometimes we err on the side of being overly cautious but being overly cautious saves lives What did you think about as you considered and learned the details of the rabbis decision in the awesome situation to let in the man who seemed to be someone who needed shelter who needed help and turned out to be a gunman Well that is a perfect example of rabbi Citroen walker He is a kind and generous person Of course he would do that That makes that makes perfect sense And the fact that he would try to create a community of welcome is exactly who he is and what's he about what he's about And at the same time endemic of the situation and the complexities of trying to keep a community safe when you really don't know I'm also thinking about the level of anti semitism that is revealed here Now we're dealing with a disturbed individual who is dead And so we may learn more or may not learn more about what was in this person's head and in any event it was one person And yet his logic seemed to be if I just grabbed some Jews they're going to fix my issue I mean it's truly a horrifying thought to cross someone's mind Do you think that is a widespread viewpoint that you have to deal with I think experience just demonstrates that that is the case that the location of his synagogue is not in a random place You'd have to go there for a specific purpose at a specific time for this specific incident So the fact that there was a sense of target here is troubling and disturbing And again just another feature of the awareness and the sort of system of issues that have to be considered when keeping your community safe What kind of support if any do you want from your fellow Americans I think in this time there's a really powerful optic that was demonstrated within moments of this terrible incident unfolding And that is communities all across the country particularly in the Dallas metroplex area communities of faith who took the time to stand up and be present even in as much as they couldn't actually do anything And knowing that there were people all across the country indeed all across the world provided a sense of comfort and support saying that you're not alone And that image and that presence really really matters And I know that there are so many people thinking and praying and offering support Those efforts are so meaningful and really so powerful to know that you're not alone really matters Rabbi Andrew Mark Paley Dallas Texas thank you so much sir Thank you so much.
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"This is morning edition from NPR news I mean Martinez and Culver City California And I'm Melissa block in Washington D.C. In response to the rapid spread of the omicron variant President Biden is promising to send in federal reinforcements to support overwhelmed hospitals Our doctors nurses hospital staffs have gone above and beyond during this pandemic The strain is stress is real I really mean it It's real And we'll have their backs though We have to let them know we have their backs The president says military doctors and nurses will be deployed Even before Biden spoke yesterday officials in Rhode Island had asked the federal government for help that's because hospital staffing shortages are already at crisis levels there Dr. Laura forman is chief of emergency medicine It can't hospital in Warwick Rhode Island and she's with us this morning Doctor foreman you spoke with morning edition almost exactly this time of year ago You were running a field hospital outside Providence then what is the situation now for you in the hospital Good morning Melissa the situation right now in the hospital is worse than I've seen it in the last two years The onslaught of patients with COVID right now is unlike anything I've seen It's relentless At this point I'm surprised if a patient tests negative for it Even patients who are coming in after car accidents are with ankle sprains or testing positive the community spread here is nothing short of wildfire at this point and it's overwhelming the hospital We are routinely running out of beds We're running out of IV pumps we're running out of pillows in 20 years and emergency medicine I've never seen anything like this And the folks who were testing positive what overall what is the vaccination status of them About 70% of the people who are really ill with COVID are not vaccinated about 30% are vaccinated I will say I have seen more people die of COVID than I can count They have all been unvaccinated I've yet to have someone who's vaccinated die of COVID You mentioned all the things that you're running out of Are you also running out of staff We are really stretched then in terms of staffing I'm honored to work with some truly incredible dedicated staff but it has been so hard just to keep to keep staffing in at this pandemic has really taken a toll on folks It's taken this whole physically but it's also taken an incredible emotional toll on people And it's been hard to keep us staffed Yeah what are they telling you Your colleagues what are they how are they expressing that There's a lot of PTSD There's just there's a lot of strain There are literally days many days when we are trying to find a place to move a patient who has died so that we can make room for a sick patient coming in And to do that day in and day out is excruciatingly painful And to know that this could all be preventative people were willing to get a couple of shots in the arm is demoralizing You know last time I checked Rhode Island had one of the highest vaccination rates fully vaccinated rates in the country Something like 75% fully vaccinated And yet and yet you're still seeing this How do you account for that It's predominantly unvaccinated or partially vaccinated people that we're seeing But people who are vaccinated can still get this and they can still spread it They're much less likely to get really sick with it but I think it's really the unvaccinated folks who are filling up her hospitals I know when you spoke with the program last year you talked about a lot of cases where you would have to be FaceTiming family members as their loved one was dying Is that still the case or people allowed to be with their family members if they're in the hospital We are allowing people to come in at the end of life but there's still a lot of people who are alone in the hospital before they die because we just can't safely let visitors and all of the time Does the comments from President Biden and the promises of help yesterday do those reassure you in any way We are heartened by it I'm glad that the federal government is doing everything they can but the reality is that the responsibility for this rest was every single one of us If everybody would get vaccinated if everybody vaccinated and unvaccinated will wear a mask we wouldn't need to be in this I think the important message is that we don't need to wait for a mandate to put a mask on and do the right thing and keep one another safe Yeah and when you tell that to the patients you're dealing with has that gotten through to them It hasn't and it's so discouraging I don't know how to motivate people to protect one another You know we are all risking our lives every day to take care of people who are unwilling to get a couple of shots to protect all of us That is Dr. Laura foreman She is chief of emergency medicine at Kent hospital in Warwick Rhode Island Doctor foreman thanks for all you're doing and thanks for taking time to talk with us Thank you so much The former chair of Harvard's chemistry department has been convicted of lying to the university and the IRS about its ties with China Academics across the country have been following the case closely from member station WGBH in Boston Kirk karpe.
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"Is morning addition from NPR news I mean Martinez and Culver City California And I'm Nobel king in Washington D.C. good morning The women's tennis association is suspending tournaments in China and Hong Kong over concerns about the tennis star punctual She accused a Chinese government official of sexual assault and then she vanished for a while since then she's rarely been seen in public except in tightly controlled settings with government minders Earlier I talked to NPR's Tom Goldman who's been covering this one and I asked him why the WTA took this action Well even though Peng Shui reappeared after her disappearance and was shown in photos and videos Steve Simon and her other supporters said they still doubted she was genuinely safe and worried the appearances were stage managed and also that pung sexual assault allegation wasn't going to be investigated So for those reasons and because as he said in his statement he doesn't want to put other players or WTA staff at risk the WTA is taking its business and it's pretty big business out of China Right so you have a sports organization acting on principle over profit That seems rather unique Very the WTA so far as a loan and what it's doing In recent years we've seen both English soccer's Premier League We've seen the NBA get into trouble when a soccer player and a basketball executive made political statements against the Chinese government Now those organizations tried to distance themselves from the statements but the NBA still lost several $100 million in Chinese business It is estimated the WTA could lose hundreds of millions as well It puts on average ten events a year in China including the season ending WTA finals even though the recent schedules been cut short by the pandemic China tournaments can be relocated making up for some of the losses But leaving China still will have an impact Has the WTA said how long the suspension of tournaments in China and Hong Kong will last All it said in Steve Simon's statement is that the women's tour will return if China takes the steps the WTA has asked for the ability to talk upon without the government interfering the investigation of her sexual assault allegation And it sounds like it could be a while based on a fairly indignant editorial today in China's state run media The editorial says the WTA has put on an exaggerated show It's bringing politics into women's tennis opening a Pandora's box and is a betrayer of the Olympic spirit I mean Tom it's worth saying that the Winter Olympics will happen in February They will happen in China If the WTA is continuing to not hold tournaments there if pung's status is still uncertain what does that mean for the Olympics You know a lot of activists and China critics hope that there is a big impact on the Olympic Games They would love to see the WTA's stance repeated with tough talk and action by other sports organizations Olympic sponsors even Olympic athletes And they want it not just for the pun case but for the bigger ongoing issues of human rights violations in China violations the Chinese government denies but when it comes to its treatment of its Uighur minority the U.S. government has labeled that as genocide Those critics see a great opportunity and potential leverage with the global spotlight the Olympics create But so far we're not seeing any action beyond what the WTA has done And it's to be determined if anything will alter the games which are going to be severely locked down and controlled anyway because of the pandemic NPR's Tom Goldman thank you Tom You're welcome So far the price of partridges has not been affected by this year's high inflation But if you want a pear tree that's going to cost you Turtle doves and French hens are also getting more expensive NPR Scott horsley has a price check on all the gifts in the 12 days of Christmas song On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me a partridge in a pear tree Every year for almost four decades the folks at PNC bank in Philadelphia have been pricing partridges calling birds dancing ladies and the rest to calculate the total cost of this 12 day gift basket When they started in the 1980s high inflation was still a ghost of a pretty recent past But in the 6 years leading up to the pandemic the bank's annual Christmas price index was about as exciting as Harry como prices were remarkably stable moving 1% or less each year Now though rising prices are back in the headlines and the inflationary tempo has jumped sharply Three branches turtle dogs and apartments in a country the price of turtle doves is soared 40% since 2019 And soccer blue French hands are up 50% PNC is Amanda agati says that mostly reflects the rising cost of bird feed and people to look after the hands But strong demand from customers is pushing up prices as well Some of it is certainly the accelerating trends over the last few years we've seen around backyard farming The price of 6 geese a Lang has jumped nearly 60% But at least you get a half dozen eggs out of the deal And while you shouldn't put all your eggs in one basket whenever there's uncertainty in the economy some people like to park their money in precious metals That's driving up the price of A.
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"Thanks This is morning edition from NPR news I mean Martinez and Culver City California And I'm Noelle king in Washington D.C. good morning The holidays are fast approaching and the Biden administration is trying to reassure Americans that supply chain problems won't make shopping even more chaotic this year than it normally is Yesterday President Biden hosted the CEOs of some of the country's biggest retailers Elon cries was there He's the CEO of the toymaker Mattel mister Chris thanks for being with us Hello there Good morning What questions did you have for President Biden yesterday Well it was a very good meeting I was encouraged by President Biden commitment to support the private sector in mitigating supply chain disruptions including in particular port congestion Mattel appreciates the administration leadership in helping to focus attention and resources on this important area We were grateful I have to say for the invitation to The White House to share information with the administration about Mattel's perspective on supply chain and the toy industry as a whole in preparation towards the holiday season The administration has been very open listening to industry concerns engaging with toy companies retailers and other stakeholders and we look forward to continuing this collaboration What commitments did you hear from President Biden yesterday about easing supply chain problems You mentioned the ports what did he say exactly that left you feeling like this is going to work out Well as I mentioned there was strong commitment to continue to collaborate with the private sector He was very much in listening mode and was keen to hear from us what issues we see And certainly there is commitment engagement and action as well to help us mitigate for disruption especially as it relates to congestions at ports What challenges do you see I'm sure there are many American parents right now thinking about shopping for the holidays who would want to know what's on Mattel's radar as we head into the holiday season What are you worried about Well we have been navigating supply chain disruption since the beginning of the pandemic but have been able to work through those disruptions We had very strong quarter that just ended in the third quarter And we are expecting a strong holiday season with the plenty of toys for children of all ages to play in the coming season Have any of these transportation challenges over the past couple of months caused Mattel to rethink its manufacturing strategy and maybe shift more production to the United States We continuously assess and evolve our supply chain supply chain is one of our core strength and strongest assets And a large part of our success has been due to the strength and capabilities we have in supply chain This is something that we evolve We continue to transform and see that as one of our competitive advantages And with that we're heading very confidently towards a strong holiday season Are you able to share what some of those strengths are Because we know that many companies really are struggling right now Mattel based on what you're telling me seems to have figured something out The company has been around for a long time What are you doing that's working It's not that we have not been impacted but we have been able to work through those challenges we anticipated short supply and longer lead times We factor that into our planning and took very specific mitigating actions leveraging our scale expertise and flexible supply chain model in order to address these challenges It can give you a few examples We expedited procurement of raw materials we invested in additional tooling.
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"W ABE Live from NPR news and Culver City California I'm Duane Brown The drug enforcement administration says law enforcement raids have seized more than 9 and a half million counterfeit pills so far this year That's more than the last two years combined Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco says no places immune from the overdose deaths that are plaguing the nation The drugs are being sold in rural communities the suburbs and the inner city We say counterfeit pills You want to be very clear We mean pills that are fashioned to look like legitimate pills that might be prescribed by your doctor But in fact they are fake pills They're being manufactured in illegal labs many cases in Mexico and they are not I stress they are not legitimate medications Monaco says increasingly the counterfeit pills contain deadly doses of fentanyl they are also being sold over the Internet and on social media platforms A Florida judge says he's going to approve the contingency sale of a property in surfside the site of a recent condo collapse that killed 98 people as NPR's Greg Allen tells us of developers offering to pay $120 million for the two acre property The developer is damaged properties a company based in the United Arab Emirates that up to now has worked mostly in Dubai The court appointed receiver overseeing the sale of the oceanfront surfside lot describes it as a stalking horse bid Others can still bid at an auction that will take place early next year Miami judge Michael hansman said he'll approve the sale with the understanding the property will continue to be marketed to other potential buyers The receiver told the court and appraisal valued the now collapsed 12 story counter tower at $95 million Judge hansman said after unit owners receive fair market value for their properties he intends to use the extra money to pay claims and to compensate families of those who died in the collapse Greg Allen and PR news Miami This is NPR From W ABE news in Atlanta good afternoon I'm Jim burris It's 5 32 Thousands of film and television workers across the U.S. and here in Georgia are set to vote tomorrow on whether to strike As a meal Moffett reports a work stoppage could jeopardize ongoing productions in the state On one side the union the international alliance of theatrical and stage employees on the other the alliance of motion picture and television producers They've been negotiating a new contract since May According to the union the old deal lack sufficient penalties to keep producers from extending hours of work leading sometimes to 60 to 70 hour weeks on the job The union also says its members particularly those in Georgia who quickly resumed work during the pandemic should benefit from the record profits hauled in by film studios and streaming services during that time There are 150,000 union members represented by the IAT SE across the country Studio mechanics local four 79 says it represents about two thirds of those behind the cameras here in Georgia a W a B E news Candidates who are running for a statewide office in Georgia can now accept bigger checks for campaign contributions The state ethics commission today elected to bump limits by $600 Now the max amount for a primary in general election is $7600 If there's a runoff the cutoff is now $4500 That's up a few $100 from the previous limit as well Candidates for the state House and Senate also got a slight boost to their contribution ceiling The changes take effect immediately And if you thought this summer was a smidge cooler than normal turns out you're right the.
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"Live from NPR news in Culver city California I'm doing police I. cal tell there are mass demonstrations across the country at this hour to commemorate this day one hundred fifty five years ago one word that slavery had ended finally reached African American slaves in Texas two years after the Emancipation Proclamation representative Karen bass a Democrat from California says Juneteenth should be a national holiday because too many Americans know too little about the country's history they have no idea of the brutality of slavery they have no idea what happened after slavery in the fact that people really weren't free they were incarcerated in Slade over and over again and so Juneteenth a national holiday would be a time for us to come to grips with our history to learn more about it bass who is also chair of the congressional black caucuses Juneteenth helps Americans understand the oppression that has
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"Live from NPR news in Culver city California nine to Wayne brown the trump administration is expanding fast track deportation regulations to more quickly deport us suspected undocumented migrants without a hearing impaired finesse aroma tells us it's expected to go into effect tomorrow up until now the expedited removal program allowed low level officials to arrest and deport unauthorized immigrants without ever standing in front of a judge if they were detained within a hundred miles of the border and within two weeks of arrival under the new expanded policy rapid removal proceedings would be applied to nearly anyone suspected of being in the country illegally who cannot prove they've been here for at least two years the trump administration says the changes will reduce the need for costly court proceedings and will mitigate the massive backlog of immigration cases critics say the changes empower ice officers to act as both prosecutor and judge and that the truncated process which could take just hours could result in wrongful deportations Vanessa Romo NPR
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Joe Biden says he never "acted inappropriately" with Lucy Flores
"We're going to start our program today with a conversation about an alleged encounter between former vice president Joe Biden and former Nevada democratic assemblywoman Lucy Flores in an article for New York magazine Flores details and alleged encounter in two thousand fourteen with then vice president Biden, she calls the encounter awkward and says he grabbed her shoulders from behind sniffed her hair and kissed the back of her head before a campaign event. At the time says she felt embarrassed and powerless former vice president Biden responded with a statement that said quote in my many years on the campaign trail and in public life. I have offered countless handshakes hugs expressions of affection support and comfort and not once never did. I believe I acted inappropriately. If it is suggested that I did. So I will listen respectfully. But it was never my intention Lucy. Flora's is here to speak with us about this alleged encounter from our studios in Culver City, California. We should also say we have invited the former vice president to respond to the allegations in an interview, and we have not yet received a response Lucy. Flores thank you for being with us. Thank you. My pleasure. Miss flora, can you describe the encounter in your own words? Share will. I mean, it's just as I described it happened. Very suddenly I was on expecting it. It was a campaign rally setting. So there was a lot of chaos a lot of people a lot of energy. We were all kind of in public vice president Biden, and I were never alone together. So as we were waiting to be called up to the stage. The rally had already started people were already speaking. We were waiting in line. Even Gloria was in front of me, Joe Biden was behind me. And you know, I just all of a sudden feel his hands. And I feel him get up really close to me. And i'm. Just you know, at that point processing, and I'm thinking, okay. This is really weird. But then he leans in. And then he like inhales, and and then he proceeds to plant this long kiss on the top of my head and the entire time. And just kinda like what is happening as we mentioned, former vice president Biden has released a statement and says if he did behave this way, he doesn't believe he acted inappropriately. What is your response to his statement? I need the vice president and all men and all people who are in positions of power to understand that in that setting in that situation that kind of behavior is absolutely inappropriate. A big part of the reason why I'm also speaking out now is because he has a history of this. This is not in unknown issue. There have been stories. There are pictures. There are videos, I think that there is a very severe disconnect and lack of empathy for what the women on the receiving end are feeling I understand that he's trying to clear his his intention, but it's not about your intention. Whether it was an innocent gesture whether it was a sexual gesture none of that matters. It is about the person on the receiving end of that inappropriate behavior by someone who is very very clearly. More powerful than you that power dynamic is important to recognize the organizer of the event, you describe is Henry Munoz the co founder of the Latino victory project and he released a statement Saturday night, and he says quote at no time were these two leaders alone together. And I and the organization I co-founded and those in attendance, do not believe that circumstances. Support allegations that such an event took place. What is your response to Mr. Munoz, Mr. boondocks saints took oh and read my ass because clearly he didn't read it or if he read it he didn't comprehend it he specifically inquired about whether or not we were ever alone. And I never ever stated that we were alone. In fact, I've been very clear that this was always out in public. You said in your article that you're not suggesting that Joe Biden broke any laws. Why did you wish to come forward? Over the years. I have seen that this type of inappropriate behavior by Joe bye. Heiden? But also by others has not been taken seriously. And in many ways, if the media did talk about it. They kind of talked about it jokingly and kind of giving him a pass like this is just Biden being Biden boys will be boys while I'm saying, no, so former vice president Joe Biden is mulling a presidential run. Do you think he should run for president? I don't believe he should run for president that being said, I'm not supporting any other candidate. I'm not saying these things because I'm trying to lift up anybody else. We have many many qualified candidates including women, and I want to continue hearing from all of them. And as far as it relates to president Biden. No, I don't believe that he should run. There's a reaction to Joe Biden generally that his behavior is possibly a generational misunderstanding. That went vitamin considers quote expressions of affection others, consider completely inappropriate. And and what is your view about this there? Very well could be that aspect in the same way that you have folks who are serving who up until recently, you had people who were against the Civil Rights Act and were pro segregationists. And those people were still serving in our government. I think that culture is changing and it's changing for the better. And that's what we
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"Close captioning is coming to Google podcasts. Forthcoming version of the app will include the option to produce an automatic live transcript onscreen enabled with ACC button. Good for noisy places, or for those with hearing difficulties website nine to five Google have enabled the feature on the Beata version of the Google app and reports that it works. Well, also, the at will highlight major items in the show notes and offer search terms to learn more new items prepped in beater versions can take months to arrive though years. What else you need the New York Times has launched a three minute. Weekday flash news briefing hosted by Michael Barbaro for Amazon Alexa devices as well. As a weekly interactive news quiz from the producers of the daily and other services. None of those services work on Google speakers though, the briefing, which is a nice change from a radio bulletin is sadly unavailable in Google's news briefing serve. It's sponsored by Audi. Steven Goldstein went to see s and reports back about Spotify is exclusivity announcements five G, smart speakers and a toilet with Amazon. Alexa, built in Alexa. Use the fresh ner. I would give it a few minutes. My name is Anita. I host history broadcast echoes Avandia. I am just coming out of the Bengal of orcas meat, and it was absolutely fascinating. Because I got it. Listen to people who've been in the field for a lot longer than I have. There hasn't really really good tips on how to grow audience at the military pursue as a whiteboard. Gasser should stick together? Which was absolutely fascinated. The Banglore podcasters and listeners meter on January. The twelfth was the biggest and longest yet willing to notes from the event in our show notes and our newsletter hunter walk a partner in a VC company. Writes about podcast discovery podcast discovery is a problem. He writes, but attempts to fix it are at best features not products. Or companies these IRS podcast apps are way better than Apple's default app claims. Life hacker pocket casts, overcast and Castro. Get higher scores than the purple one. Meanwhile, nine to five MAC carries four new features. Apple podcasts should ad in thirteen P. C magazine. Gives us details on how to make your podcast sound better is actually in depth article about microphone technique and much of the advice. His quite sound if you'll pardon the pun and a job for you. You could be the social media manager for apple podcasts and apple books in Culver City, California in the US apple podcast, apparently not important enough to have its own.
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Apple to build new campus in Austin and add jobs across the US
"As noted Thursday apple announced plans to expand operations and add jobs in several us cities, including Austin, Seattle, San Diego and Culver City, California. And President Trump took notice he tweeted his gratitude to apple CEO Tim cook during the presidential campaign. Don't remember Trump had railed against Apple's overseas manufacturing and later said that he one of the tech giant to build. Its biggest factory in the world in
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Apple plans new $1 billion campus for Austin, Texas
"Fifteen thousand. For the Austin location, and at least five thousand more over the next four years at other locations across the country, including Seattle, San Diego, Culver City, California. Pittsburgh New York in Colorado. It's been legal since November to possess and smoke marijuana recreationally in Michigan, but it could be another year before commercial sales illegal there. So for now, at least one business is giving it away at least as he explains. It's a free gift with purchase on high road. A Boston based online business is getting around Michigan's current marijuana law that
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Apple to build new campus in Austin and add jobs across the US
"Apple. They have plans for expansion and they're building a new campus in Austin, Texas. They're also going to add other facilities in Seattle, San Diego and Culver City, California. In Austin, though, that's the big one. That's the big news. Apple is making a one billion dollar investment to build a campus. Their jobs created will include engineering, research development, customer support and more. The company already employs ninety thousand people in all fifty states, but plans on creating another twenty thousand twenty twenty three it also announced plan to invest ten billion dollars in US data centers over the next five years including four and a half billion dollars over the next two years. So big expansion for apple.
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Apple to Build New Sites, Including Texas Campus
"Dollars to build a new corporate campus in Austin, Texas, promising to create as many as fifteen thousand jobs, the iphone maker also plans to establish new offices in San Diego Seattle and Culver City, California, where it said it would add more than one thousand jobs in each place trip. Michael covers apple for the Wall Street Journal in joins us from San Francisco trip. Apple is also announced plans to add hundreds of jobs in cities where it already has offices know New York, Boston Portland, Oregon was the news about a new campus in Austin a surprise. And what about the other locations? The news was a surprise earlier this year apple announced that it would name new campus a new facility by the year's end and in doing so it said that it would it would name the facility in a state other than California and Texas where it has existing operations. So today's announcement was surprise in the sense that this new campus that wasn't else is in Texas where. For Apple's already operating. And also as I mentioned these other locations that was a surprise to me. There was no beauty contest about any of these locations. You know, San Diego Seattle Culver city. It's a surprise unless you're a close follower of apple in the case of Culliver city apples been adding jobs to support its Hollywood operations there and its expansion into video streaming programming in the case of Seattle. Apple's had pretty sizable machine learning effort base there. And so adding jobs there make sense at certainly already been in that area and in the case of San Diego. There have been reports of late of apple adding jobs there in order to work on modem chips, and and semiconductor effort this comes as other tech giants like Amazon and Google are also expanding into new cities, and creating new jobs does any of this have to do with pressure from President
The 3:59
From HQ2 to Trump, Amazon to face a lot of challenges in 2019 (The 3:59, Ep. 504)
"To three fifty nine. I'm Ben FOX urban Joni Sussman twenty nine team. It's shaping up to be a challenging one for Amazon with critic seemingly coming out of the woodwork in New York City against its h q to project their plus the company faces potential troubles from President Trump. And it's controversial facial recognition software. So Joan what I wanted to ask you about this is do you think that Amazon's really strong reputation with his customers will continue to help insulating. It from some of these issues seems like people consumers have sort of bifurcated their understanding of Amazon like I feel like even like we were chatting before this. I'm New Yorker year. You're earning Johnny live in this area. We're talking about reasons that it's. The reasons that some people are annoyed with the issue decision to move here. But even though I am one of the people it's kind of annoyed by still use Amazon constantly, so as like a consumer as a service, I think that people will continue to judge Amazon the service different than Amazon as a company. Yeah. I totally agree. I was at a council hearing that ran for like three hours yesterday where a bunch of council members where beating up Amazon about the age to process how they're being cut out of it. And that this is going to be a state process that in like the fact that Amazon was going to get three billion dollars in incentives for building. What are the council members? I thought really crystallized a lot of what we're talking about. Really? Well, and he specifically said we we love you. And we hate you. And it wasn't or whatever it was like, we're we kinda feel the same two things about Amazon at the exact time. So I was kind of in the story that I wrote today though, I was kinda. Curious to see people really like a lot of Google services. People use a lot of Google services. People really like Facebook to there's a reason why social media company out there. So I was curious to see if with all this tech backlash that was going on directed at both of those companies whether Amazon would start to face some of those similar issues there there are like a lot of those issues that have been simmering with the company, but at the same time, I really don't think that they've been hit the same way as Facebook and Google, I if you agree with that. Yeah. But I think that's because most of the tech backlash or we're talking about it's mostly been centered on Facebook, really like is Facebook has been the locus of all that animosity. And I think Google and YouTube are pulled into that vortex because they have services that are very similar like they have these user generated. Eh social based things where this abuse all kind of able to. It's like a little crackling fire all able to the fuel each other Amazon isn't really operating in those spaces. And so it's been insulated in a way. Yes. But I think that that doesn't mean that it the next tech backlash twenty nineteen might be like rate in the sweet spot for Amazon. Might be related to facial recognition software or might be related to President Trump bringing up more issue's about postal service. There's a lot. Either way next up apple is building its own hue to project in Austin, Texas. The company today unveiled plans for a one billion dollar campus there along with new offices in Seattle Cindy ago, Culver City, California as well as expanding operations in Pittsburgh, New York and Boulder, Colorado. So my question for you is should we go work for Amazon or apple my gosh, come on? Wow. That's why would we do that? But yeah, I mean, even though it's fun to kind of compare it to an H Q two idea. But it's really not. I mean, this is kind of different expansion of their workforce than the whole like dog and pony show around HQ to addition to this. You know, it's a lot the number of people that are going to be bringing jobs. They're going to be bringing to Austin is a lot smaller than either of the. Yeah. It's not nearly as big as sprinkling it around different other places that touch on initiatives that apple is increasing so related to that. Do you think apple is likely to face like similar criticisms aim is on with HQ to now? So I know and partly because of everything you said treating completely differently either way if you want to read more about these stories, check them out on CNN, Ben FOX or event Joni salesman. Thanks for listening.
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Apple to build new Austin headquarters campus, expand around U.S.
"Win them all for genuine weeks after Amazon announced plans to build a new headquarters in Arlington apples announced its next expansion. A one billion dollar campus in Austin, Texas with smaller facilities in Seattle. San Diego in Culver City, California over the next three years, the maker of iphone will expand in Pittsburgh, New York, and Colorado altogether. Those locations will add about twenty thousand jobs still less than Amazon is bringing to
The Opening Bell
U.S. Stocks Rebound on Trade-Talk Progress
"Foreign minister says the legal project process should not be hijacked for political purposes. And she says that the US should not use the extradition process for ends other than the pursuit of Justice. This CEO of United Airlines says his pilots do not need any additional training on the new Boeing jet. That's at the center of the investigation into a deadly crash in Indonesia. Oscar Munoz says United's pilots are prepared to respond to problems that might arise with automated systems on modern planes spoke yesterday to reporters and said that the Boeing seven thirty-seven max is safe and reliable United along with American in south west uses the new Boeing model that was involved in the October twenty nine Lyon aircrash Indonesian, investigators are examining the role of faulty sensor readings from an anti stall system in the accident which killed one hundred eighty nine people and apple is expanding its footprint in Austin, Texas, including the construction of a one. Billion dollar campus. The tech giant says it's also adding sites and new jobs in Seattle, San Diego and Culver City, California, while expanding existing sites in Pittsburgh, New York in Colorado, the company looks to add about twenty thousand new jobs by twenty twenty three. We begin this morning with thought leader Thursday here on the opening bell. Chuck Garcia is the executive vice president and director of commercial deposits and treasury management at associated Bank, and Chuck is back with us this morning in the thought leader chair Chuck good morning. Welcome back to the opening bell. Good morning. Nice to be here. A happy holidays to you as well. Here. We are again in the holiday season lots going on. We're gonna talk a little bit about what's happened in your world this year and other things, but let's get to some news with the fed getting ready to have its December meeting looks like another interest rate going up. How's this going to impact financial services sector? Well, it does look like it. I think there's still a tad of uncertainty. But I think what went from being one hundred percent certain is is still very high. So I think this next one is likely clearly it will have an effect really across the board commercial customers will see their rates rise from a from paying on the interest of loans similarly, consumers housing, it'd be interesting to see what happens with the mortgage industry. I think those are already somewhat built in. But clearly it's going to have a have an impact albeit relatively still historically very, very low. I think there's the mental aspect that. People say oh rates are rising. And obviously rates we pay to clients will will increase as well. Are you? What are your thoughts about whether the fed is going to continue this in twenty nineteen nine? There's been a lot of talk about this in the last couple weeks that may be December is going to be the last one for a while. I see too in the coming year. Okay. I think the uncertainty here in the US alone with the tariffs and the trade wars, you know, looming cetera. But also, there's a lot of uncertainty abroad, you have France. Now, obviously, the Brexit situation. There's a lot of uncertainty abroad, and we're all intertwined any longer. And and so I think that's going to have an impact on their desire to to be probably as aggressive as they might have been they being the fed as aggressive as they might have been previously. Do you think it's actually had an impact on businesses, especially local businesses that are they is this something that's causing them to stop and pause their plans. I think it has you know, depending on the industry you're in to raw-materials are part of your production cycle, and your and your supply chain. There's absolute evidence. Having an impact is slowing some things down. I think the farm industry to you know, living where we do. That's continuing to have a drag on that as well. How does the interest rate going up or going down impact the day to day management of financials? Well, you have to really we have to do is really stay abreast of what are what our competition is doing. So for my pain perspective what we pay and interest rates to clients. You know, be they consumers or or corporates. It's certainly today has far more interest at the individual and company level than than it would have even a year ago. It was just immaterial at that point in time. Now, you know dollars are significant enough where people are paying attention and willing to to change in today's environment. If they don't feel like they're getting a proper rate or attention from their Bank. I heard some experts talking about the interest rate hikes have come so quick and fast that they haven't had. There hasn't been enough time for them to take hold and and people have become comfortable with them. Usually there is a bigger window between interest rates is there some truth to that about it still working its way through the system each one of these hikes. Well, I see both sides. I mean, the savvy investor those with large dollars they move very quickly today. If a rate increase does in fact occur they have they effectively expected to be an instantaneous change by their Bank. You know, the the normal John Q public guy like me doesn't pay. As much attention to it. But if all of a sudden, you look up and see oh my gosh. You know, I'm still backing the point one percent. That's not fair in today's environment. You know, they may they may choose to act on that. But I think I think the the savvy investor the corporate investor in the larger dollar people are absolutely much much quicker to react today. I'm interested in your opinion about the economy as it stands right now. Are there earning warning signs out there that you are hearing about or seeing or feeling? Yeah housing. I mean housing is shown some some slowdown, obviously that's a huge component of of our industry in our economy in so housing and the ripple effect that that in fact has is slowing down, you know, they're building as many apartment buildings people aren't buying single housing contrary to what I'm saying. You're the millennials are now moving to the burbs and buying houses. So I think you have kind of a reverse effect of people that are retiring moving into the rural areas, but it isn't fast enough to keep up in so housing. I think is one of the indicators I see that that could have a drag on the economy and then again as rates rise. It makes the affordability of a house that perhaps you could have afforded two years ago. Much less today. Chuck hang on with us. We're on with Chuck or see this morning executive vice president and director of commercial deposits and treasury management at associated Bank. It's our thought leader conversation. We're going. 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"Outcome for Macklin her conservatives injured. German national elections last fall and is expected to do the same on Sunday in Bavaria polls there show the CS. You is all but certain to lose majority control of the state legislature, which is held for decades. Some political observers say a loss in Bavaria could lead to a reshuffling or worse. If Angela Merkel cabinet Suraya Sirhatti, Nelson NPR news Berlin, Australia's prime minister wants to prevent private or religious schools from discriminating against gays students. Scott Morrison issued a statement today or Jing parliament to take up the issue over the next couple of weeks in December. Australian lawmakers voted to legalize same sex marriage. I'm trial Snyder, Culver City, California. Rand PR comes from NPR stations. Other contributors include Amazon prime video with the Romanovs a new series from the creator of madman. Starring Diane lane. Aaron Eckhart Christina Hendricks and Isabel who pair a new episode every Friday on prime video. This
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Two more Arkansas inmates die of suspected tainted drugs, bringing total to five
"Live from NPR news in Culver City California. I'm Dwayne Brown in Arkansas five inmates have died this week at, a state prison of suspected drug overdoses Michael Hitlerian with member station k. u. a. r. in Little Rock has this update the latest. To win, mates were pronounced dead Wednesday at the foreigner supermax, unit three others died earlier in the week Jim priest an attorney. For the Arkansas department of correction says an extensive search of the prison is being conducted looking. For drugs that's the seriousness of the. Situation with a total of five deaths over the past several days we really want to take every action we can possibly take to prevent any
Morning Edition
Thousands of teachers in Washington state strike over salaries
"DC and I'm David Greene, in Culver City California John McCain will lie in state at the US capitol tomorrow since his death last weekend we've been reflecting on his life his impact. And his legacy and one memory that often stands out to me was. Covering some of his presidential campaign events in the summer of two thousand. Eight, Russia and its neighbour Georgia were in conflict and McCain just couldn't stop talking about it world history is often made in remote obscure countries which being made in Georgia today. It's the responsibility of the leading? Nations, of the world
All Things Considered
Trump, Trudeau upbeat about prospects for NAFTA deal by Friday
"Capitol Hill high level trade talks are underway to. Sort out how Canada might fit into, a revised, North American Free trade agreement, President Trump is threatening new tariffs on Canadian cars if a deal isn't reached north country public, radio's Brian man reports this week President Trump unveiled a tentative side deal on trade with. Mexico that left Canadians on the outside looking in when columnist in the Toronto Globe and. Mail called, the arrangement a double cross but his Canada's foreign minister Christopher Freeland negotiates changes. To NAFTA with her counterparts in Washington many, Canadians think their government will have to make concessions Royle Anglo lives here in. Toronto I don't think we'll give the, farmer away but I. Think they're already, talking about giving out some things in some areas theory. I've heard recently President Trump says Canadian tariffs on dairy products are unacceptable but there's a lot more at stake in these talks if NAFTA unravels without A new deal it would disrupt one of the largest trade relationships in the.
Morning Edition
Scientists Find a Strange New Cell in Human Brains: The 'Rosehip Neuron'
"Scientists have taken one more small step toward understanding what makes. The human brain unique as NPR's John Hamilton reports they've identified a type of brain cell that exists in people but not in rodents the cells are called rose hip. Neurons and, they were first. Described by scientists. In Hungary named Gabor Thomas Ed. Lean of the institute, for brain science, in Seattle says Thomas was recording electrical signals from cells taken from two human brains in the course of doing these recordings he started. To notice a very distinctive type of cell that's to him, have the shape of, a rose after the pedals have fallen off so he called them they rose upsell meanwhile lean. And other scientists at the Allen institute had also run across these unusual neurons while doing genetic analysis, of the brain cells so the researchers combined with they had learned and lean says their conclusion was remarkable, this particular type of so head properties that had never actually been described in another species today the findings suggest that the human brain is. More than just a big mouse brain at some point it acquired at least one kind of cell mouse doesn't have scientists aren't, sure exactly what these cells do though they seem to be, involved in controlling the. Flow of information in the brain and, lean says their existence has big implications for researchers it throws. Some Doubt on the ability to use the mouse then, to study a certain elements of human function and disease rose hip cells are a type of inhibitory neuron. They act like the brakes in a car telling other brain cells when to slow down and lean says it's possible they play a role. In mental illness these, types of cells, are extremely important and dysfunction of them can actually directly be linked to different types of neuropsychiatric disease like schizophrenia rose hip cells are. Involved in brain disorders it could help explain why so many, brain drugs that work, in mice don't work in people Josh Gordon directs the National Institute of mental health which helped. Fund the research it may be that in order to fully understand psychiatric disorders we need to get, access to these special types of neurons that exist only in humans Gordon says this study is part of, a larger effort by the national institutes of health to identify every type of cell found in the brains of mice monkeys and people we. Don't know how How the brain works if. We don't know all of its parts so in order to describe how the brain produces behavior. We want to know what are the different parts in the brain and then. How they work together new genetic techniques are rapidly improving scientists, ability to detect new types of brain cells and Gordon expects that researchers will find more. Cells that, exist in people but not animals I think it's very very likely that this is the tip of the iceberg the new research appears in the, journal nature
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U.S. deports accused former Nazi guard to Germany
"A former Nazi concentration camp guard was recently, discovered living in New York City he. Is now being deported from the United States that's according to US immigration and customs enforcement is I says the ninety five. Year old's name, is yucky Polly and he's been being sent to Germany the. White House commended the move this Morning NPR's Sarah McCarron has been following this and joins us down, the studio Sarah what, can you, tell us about this man Yawkey Polly well, he. Was born in what was then. Poland and what's now Ukraine and this is important, because, this was a long time ago and he's a man not quite without a country but that. No country has wanted to claim because of his involvement in, Nazi concentration camps in World War Two he worked in nineteen forty-three at. A German concentration camp in what was German occupied Poland. Later that same year thousands of. Jewish people were shot to death in. A mass execution at that camp, and, this man is not accused of participating directly in that event but he is accused of persecuting people at that camp. Preventing them from escaping and in so doing being responsible in part for those deaths how did he wind up, in New York City well he's been here for, a very long time he'd been living, in queens came to the US. After The war in nineteen forty-nine illegally the US government says they said he he lied in order to come. Here told immigration officials that he had worked in a factory and, on, a farm during the war became a naturalized? Citizen in? Nineteen, fifty seven and then as a result of. Investigations into Nazi war? Crimes was denaturalized in two thousand three ordered deported the next year and that appeal was denied in two thousand, five but he remained in the country right so why he was ordered to be deported. After the US government, found out who he actually was and then and then he stayed well it just comes down to the fact, that that these other countries didn't want to take him ambassador Richard Grenell the embassador. Germany says this came to the president's attention somehow President Trump made, it a priority made it very clear he wanted him, out and also there's been pressure from people in New York members of the New. York congressional delegation had called for his removal activists? In, New York had been calling for this for. Many years ambassador Grenell says, he brought this up repeatedly With the new German government with his. Counterparts there and decided to make a moral case they saw this as a moral obligation that they had not so much, a legal obligation this individual was not is not, a German citizen so the moral, obligation? Because this individual served it in the name of the former German government and so he is back in Germany they say he was taken. Out from his home in queens on a stretcher he's a very old man not clear exactly what, happens to. Him legally at this, point go through some kind of trials you could not entirely clear he, has a very old. Man but officials say. From the US government say this is part of the administration's effort to take immigration laws. Seriously something they've been emphasizing much more broadly and they're using this case certainly to